Teams that deliver the same kind of work over and over — client onboardings, implementation rollouts, event runs, product launches, maintenance cycles — end up rebuilding the same project skeleton by hand every single time. Someone re-types the task list, re-guesses the stages, forgets the checklist item that always bites, and re-assigns owners from memory. Odoo's native project.project and project.task models are excellent at running a project, but out of the box they give you almost nothing for reproducing one: there is no first-class "template" concept that captures a full task tree, its stages, dependencies, planned durations, assignees and descriptions and stamps out a fresh, live project on demand. The duplicate-project trick copies stale data and broken scheduling, and it does not scale to a curated library the whole company can trust.

This build-to-order module gives Odoo a real template layer. We create a dedicated template model (backed by models.Model with a clean _name, e.g. project.template, and child project.template.task records) that stores the canonical structure of a repeatable project: ordered stages, the full task hierarchy with parent/child relationships, task dependencies, planned hours, default assignees or roles, tags, descriptions and QWeb-ready checklists. A single "Create Project from Template" action — exposed as a button on the template form and, where you want it, on the Sales Order or CRM opportunity — instantiates a fully live project.project with all tasks generated in one transaction. Dates are computed relative to a kickoff date you supply, using @api.depends-driven compute fields and timedelta offsets so deadlines auto-schedule forward from day one instead of arriving pre-expired.

Technically it is a proper Odoo app, not a scripted hack. Access is governed by ir.model.access.csv plus record rules so template authors, project managers and read-only viewers see exactly what they should, and multi-company setups get company-scoped record rules. The instantiation logic is wrapped in a service method you can call from the UI, from an automated action (e.g. auto-spin a project when a deal is won), or over the external XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API for upstream systems. Views are delivered in standard XML with OWL-based interactivity for the template builder, list/kanban/form views for the library, and optional QWeb reports so a manager can print or PDF a template's full scope before it goes live. We honor Community vs Enterprise realities — the core template engine runs on Community, and where your instance has Enterprise features (Gantt planning, forecasting) we wire the generated projects to light them up rather than duplicating them.

Because this is built to order, nothing is downloaded blind. After a short scoping call we confirm your exact template structures, the trigger points (manual button, sales-driven, API), your Odoo version (17.0, 18.0 or 19.0) and your Community/Enterprise edition, then build against a staging copy of your database. You get installable source, UAT on staging, and a rollback plan before anything touches production. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope. Pricing starts from $999 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company record rules, deep sales/CRM auto-instantiation, external API integrations and migrating large volumes of existing projects into reusable templates increase the quoted scope.